An inside joke in regards to the “insolvency” of Wrapped Ethereum (wETH) over the weekend has pressured influencers to clarify it was only a “shitpost” after members of the group took it as actual.
The wETH insolvency FUD (concern, uncertainty and doubt) seemingly started to make the rounds on Nov. 26, with false rumors alleging that wETH isn’t backed 1:1 by Ether (ETH) and is bancrupt.
Blockchain developer and contributor to the ERC-721A token normal “cygaar” was one of many first to unfold the joke, earlier than confirming in a subsequent publish that it was actually a “shitpost” to see who was studying his content material.
That is actually a take a look at to see who’s been studying my content material.
— cygaar (@0xCygaar) November 26, 2022
In reality, solely a day earlier than, cygaar tweeted that “WETH can’t ever go bancrupt” and that “WETH will at all times be swappable 1:1 with ETH.”
Ethereum bull and host of The Each day Gwei Anthony Sassano additionally joined in on the wETH joke along with his personal parody publish on Nov. 27, however needed to make clear later that the preliminary publish was “shitpost/ meme” after studying the replies.
Studying the replies I really feel like I ought to make clear
This can be a shitpost/meme – there’s nothing flawed with WETH and you may at all times redeem 1 ETH for 1 WETH
Although in the event you do not consider me I will purchase your entire WETH proper now for 0.3 ETH
Promote me all you need
Then go fuck off
— sassal.eth (@sassal0x) November 27, 2022
Gnosis co-founder Martin Köppelmann was one other one to get in on the joke, claiming in a Nov. 27 Tweet to his 38,800 Twitter followers that wETH is not totally backed by ETH and that “we’d see a financial institution run on redeeming WETH quickly.”
Hours later, he mentioned he hoped the joke “didn’t trigger an excessive amount of confusion,” linking to a thread that defined the joke for individuals who weren’t within the know.
I hope this joke didn’t precipitated an excessive amount of confusion. For those who want extra context discover it right here:https://t.co/KDN3NvdO2z
— Martin Köppelmann (@koeppelmann) November 27, 2022
Associated: What’s wrapped Ethereum (wETH) and the way does it work?
Talking to Cointelegraph, Markus Thielen, the top of analysis at crypto monetary providers platform Matrixport has additionally confirmed that there’s little to no reality to the WETH “shitposts.”
wETH’s logic is automated by sensible contracts and it isn’t managed by a centralized entity, he defined:
“I’m not too involved about WETH as it is a sensible contract and never saved by a centralized trade. For the reason that sensible contract is open supply, it may be checked for bugs or flaws.”
However, latest FUD in opposition to Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) might be warranted, mentioned Thielen, referring to rumors that FTX might have printed 100,000 wBTC out of skinny air, as FTX’s Nov. 11 chapter submitting doesn’t present any BTC on FTX’s stability sheet.
“WBTC is totally completely different and right here the considerations are legitimate,” Thielen defined.
wETH is a wrapped model of ETH that’s pegged at a 1:1 ratio, which goals to unravel interoperability points on Ethereum-compatible blockchains by permitting for ERC-20 tokens to be exchanged extra simply.
wETH was launched as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum community because of this, as ETH follows completely different guidelines and thus can’t be straight traded with ERC-20 tokens.
Regardless of the lighthearted humor behind the jokes, “Dankrad Feist” instructed to his 15,500 Twitter followers in a Nov. 27 Tweet that the feedback ought to be marked “extra clearly as jokes” because it “will not be apparent to outsiders.”
Lots of people making jokes about WETH.
Please remember it will not be apparent to outsiders that it is utterly completely different from bridged property and there’s actually virtually zero danger. I feel it will be higher to mark these extra clearly as jokes.
— Dankrad Feist (@dankrad) November 27, 2022
wETH is at the moment priced at $1,196, at a present ratio of 0.999:1 to ETH, in line with information from Coinmarketcap.
